Summary
The animal lived a very long time ago, before the dinosaurs.
Scientists study the bones to learn how it hunted in the water.
Everyone works together like a big team to finish the puzzle.
Key Points
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2,000 volunteers are helping.
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They are restoring a massive skeleton.
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The creature is called Mastodonsaurus.
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It lived 240 million years ago.
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It was a water hunter that ate fish.
New Words to Learn
11 wordsvolunteers
people who give their time to help
painstaking
very careful and takes a lot of effort
restore
to fix and put back together
massive
very big
skeleton
the bones of an animal
prehistoric
from a time before written history
predator
an animal that hunts other animals
Mastodonsaurus
a huge ancient animal that lived in water
Triassic
a very old time period millions of years ago
ambush
to hide and surprise the food
amphibians
animals like frogs that can live in water and on land
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